best seller lists

USA Today Besteller List, Week Ending March 18, 2007

It’s list day again. It surprises me how fast books fall, particularly the genre books. Rhonda Byrne’s book, The Secret, remains at the top after 16 weeks on the list here. A Young Adult novel, It’s Not Easy Being Mean (Clique Series) by Lisi Harrison (Little Brown For Young Readers), $9.99, is in the top(…)

USA Today Besteller List, Week Ending March 11, 2007

There are very few new authors on the list this week despite March 6th being a huge release day for books. Elizabeth Vaughan’s wonderful closing to her Warlands Trilogy, Warlord, showed up at No. 126. I was disappointed that I didn’t see Nalini Singh’s Visions of Heat as she is such a fresh and welcome(…)

USA Today Besteller List, Week Ending March 4, 2007

  Most of the titles were debuting on the list this week with last week being replete with new releases from Avon and Harlequin. Even those books that weren’t supposed to be released until this past Tuesday appeared such as J.R. Ward’s Lover Revealed. What was most interesting in typing this out is that Random(…)

USA Today Bestseller List, Week Ending February 25, 2007

Last week I predicted that JD Robb’s Innocent in Death book would be number 1 and I was wrong. It’s No. 2, but with all the positive buzz about how this is one of the best In Death books since the beginning, I can see sales increasing and not slacking off. Innocent in DeathJ.D.Robb, Putnam,(…)

USA Today Besteller List, Week Ending February 18, 2007

There are no new faces on the list this week, but there were also no new releases last week. I expect that next week Nora Roberts’ alter ego will be up in the Number 1 slot. I’ve been resisting the expensive ebook purchase but it sounds like the book is a doozy. My bookseller friend(…)

USA Today Besteller List, Week Ending February 11, 2007

Lots of romance and familiar faces. The Dream-Hunter, Sherrilyn Kenyon, St. Martin’s Paperbacks, $7.99, No. 3. Irish Dreams, Nora Roberts (Silh Special Releasees), $7.99, No. 6 (Peak 2). Most Likely To Die, Lisa Jackson, Beverly Barton, Wendy Corsi Staub (Zebra),$7.99 No. 10 (Peak 5). McKettrick’s Luck, Linda Lael Miller (HQN), $7.99, No. 11 (Peak 8).(…)

USA Today Bestseller List, Week Ending January 21, 2007

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares (Delacorte Books for Young Readers), $18.99, No. 2 (Peak 2) Not really a romance, but interesting and encouraging to see a YA book so high in sales because doesn’t this mean that young people do read. Plum Lovin’, Janet Evanovich, (St. Martin’s Press), $16.95(…)

USA Today Besteller List, Week Ending January 14, 2007

Plum Lovin’, Janet Evanovich, (St. Martin’s Press), $16.95 No. 1, (Peak 1) Point Blank, Catherine Coulter (Jove), $7.99, No. 6, (Peak 3) Sun Kissed, Catherine Anderson (Signet), $7.99, No. 11 Is this an inspirational? Moved up quite a bit. Slow Burn, Julie Garwood (Ballantine Books), $7.99, No. 12, (Peak 5) Gone, Lisa Gardner (Bantam), $7.99,(…)

USA Today Besteller List, Week Ending January 7, 2007

Point Blank, Catherine Coulter (Jove), $7.99, No. 3, (Peak 3) Slow Burn, Julie Garwood (Ballantine Books), $7.99, No. 6, (Peak 5) Gone, Lisa Gardner (Bantam), $7.99, No. 7, (Peak 7) Be My Valentine, Debbie Macomber (Mira), $7.99, No. 14, (Peak 14) A Little Bit Wicked, Victoria Alexander (Avon), $6.99, No. 23, (Peak 19) While I(…)

USA Today Besteller List Top 150, Week Ending December 24, 2006

Basically, if you weren’t selling a gift book or your name isn’t Nora Roberts, you weren’t being bought during the holiday season. I think if I was a new author and released during the holiday season, I would think someone hated me. Nora Roberts, Valley of Silence, No. 48 (Peak 2) Philippa Gregory, The Boleyn(…)

NYT Bestellers for week ending December 9, 2006

For Sales ending December 9, 2006 Hardcover THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE, by Philippa Gregory. (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) Politics and treachery in the court of Henry VIII, narrated by three women, two of them his sometime wives. #12 FIRST IMPRESSIONS, by Nora Roberts. (Silhouette, $17.95.) Seeking peace, a wealthy businessman retreats to a small town, but(…)

USA Today Besteller List Top 150, Week Ending December 10, 2006

Linda Howard, Drop Dead Gorgeous, No. 31 (Peak 12) Philippa Gregory, The Boleyn Inheritance, No. 40 Nora Roberts, Valley of Silence, No. 43 (Peak 2) Nora Roberts, Rebellion, No. 47 (Peak 8 ) Debbie Maccomber, Ready for Lunch, No. 59 (Peak 29) Mary Balogh, Gilded Web, No. 63 (Peak 24) Danielle Steele, HRH, No. 74(…)

NYT Bestseller List

For Sales ending December 2, 2006. Hardcover DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks. (Warner, $24.99.) An unlikely romance between a soldier and an idealistic young woman is tested in the aftermath of 9/11. #4 FIRST IMPRESSIONS, by Nora Roberts. (Silhouette, $17.95.) Seeking peace, a wealthy businessman retreats to a small town, but his lovely and charitable(…)

USA Today Top 150 List

Linda Howard, Drop Dead Gorgeous, No. 12 Nora Roberts, Rebellion, No. 22 (Peak 8 ) Mary Balogh, Gilded Web, No. 24 Christina Dodd, The Prince Kidnaps a Bride, No. 38 Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dark Side of the Moon, No. 49 (Peak 19) Eloisa James, Pleasure for Pleasure, No. 52 Nora Roberts, Dance of the Gods, No.(…)